Where did you get stuck? When I bring up Visual Studio 2017 I get a start page. Then:
1. In the middle of the page is a section called “New project”. Click on “Windows Console Application”
2. On this new webpage, fill out the Name and Location at the bottom.
3. Click OK and you should be at a place where you can put in code.

I got stuck because I did not realize that Visual Studio has to go through a big initialization process the first time it is installed and run. Once that happened, I was able to get to a code viewing window. Thanks for your understanding